Other mascots died while trying to protect their companions.
Maybe while trying to protect his own son, like the father in The Road.
"Officer Duncan was shot and killed in the hours after his shift while trying to protect another individual.
"We are being forced to delay spending to the last minute while trying to protect public livelihoods," Mr. Noda said.
While trying to protect his laptop from the driving rain, he describes his descent to the streets.
The teacher was killed while trying to protect other students from the armed boy, the authorities said.
Jimmy Lee Jackson, 26, was shot dead by a state trooper while trying to protect his mother.
Saudi Arabia has long supported America's presence in the Gulf, while trying to protect its own regime by funnelling money to fundamentalist groups, including some in Pakistan.
The Islamic world is grappling with the challenge of adapting to the modern era while trying to protect its cultural identity and unique civilization.
She wants to take physical action "across the Great Divide, across the Red Sea, or some sea," and you can't do this while trying to protect yourself.
At the end, in the Dostoyevskian scene in which he collapsed while trying to protect a horse, this is precisely what seems to have occurred.
